Kaduna Central zone senator-elect, and Political Adviser to Governor Nasir el-Rufai, Malam Uba Sani, has said that his victory over Senator Shehu Sani in the senatorial election last Saturday was not a surprise to him and his party.
This was just as he said that, Governor el-Rufai is also primed to win his reelection bid in the March 9th governorship election landslide.
Uba Sani, who defeated incumbent Senator Shehu Sani of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) and Lawal Usman of the PDP said, he never saw Senator Sani as a strong contender in the poll, because he had failed the people who elected him.
Uba Sani in his appreciation message to the people of Kaduna Central Senatorial zone, however promised to be everybody’s Senator in the National Assembly.
He said, on assumption of office, he will close ranks with his colleagues from the state, including the opposition Senator from Kaduna South, Senator Danjuma La’ah to work for the people of Kaduna state.
He disclosed that his priorities would be to get Federal Government’s attention to addressing the security challenges bedeviling Birnin Gwari and Kajuru local government areas of the states.
Sani also promised to facilitate the $350 million World Bank loan, the 8th Senate denied Kaduna state, saying that the loan if obtained will enable the state build 1,000 schools, hospitals and other infrastructures.
He however expressed appreciation to the people of Kaduna Central, especially those who came out to vote him, and promised not to let them down.
